amphibians

As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

Research in recent decades has explored how animals other than humans perceive different numbers of objects

Throughout his career, the University of California, Berkeley, herpetologist named 144 species of salamanders.

His career was dedicated to understanding and protecting frog populations.

A study of the animals using blue light reveals what humans are not able to see with the naked eye.

They’ve survived volcanic eruptions, but one Caribbean island’s mountain chicken frogs might need help from scientists to escape the lethal chytrid fungus.

Peek inside the effort to save this critically endangered Caribbean frog species.

Watch a predaceous diving beetle dine on a tadpole.

Populations of the two-foot-long amphibians are declining across North America. Scientists are struggling to find out why, before it’s too late.

Researchers study how oxygen around an embryo helps shape the way feet and digits form in amphibians and chickens.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.

DNA evidence points to Asian amphibians as the source of a fatal disease that has been wiping out frogs across the globe.  

A decade after chytridiomycosis killed scores of amphibians in Panama, some species are recovering. New research indicates why.  

Baby frogs don’t develop the neural circuitry responsible for feeding inhibition until they begin metamorphosing into adults. 

A once critically endangered species of leaf frog has made a comeback. 

Phyllomedusa bicolor is a nocturnal, tree-dwelling frog that lives in the Amazon rainforest.

The polka dot tree frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) glows under a blacklight, due to the presence of three fluorescent molecules in its lymph tissue and skin. 

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On land, mudskippers use mouthfuls of water like land-based amphibians use their fleshy tongues to catch and swallow prey.